Keefy18
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How am I "flip flopping"? I've other members telling me I'm repeating myselfI'll ignore your childish insults. Your argument is flip flopping so much I think you've lost yourself.
You're making up wage percentages now in a desperate attempt to defend Woodward is ludicrous. No one has said 80%-90% should be our target. Just that our current proportion is circa 50%.
The irony is that the takeover engineered by Woodward for the Glazers put us most at risk of ending up like Leeds. Strange that you use that as a defence of not investing in the squad.
The problems started way before Jose. Singling him out is naive.
Its Woodward who authorised the spending of the money under LVG which needed to be undone and re spent under Jose which will now need to be undone and re spent under Ole. It is the lack of planning, strategy and continuity from the board which has led us to wasting £100's of millions on transfers. Please read the last sentence again!
If you can't see that Woodward has contributed the lions share to our recent decline then you are deluded.
Top line: the squad desperately needed investment last Summer. It desperately needs investment even more this Summer. Its got worse due to Woodwards mismanagement.
I'm not making up wage percentages, I am asking you what you believe to be an acceptable % of our turn over? Your not happy with it being 45-50%, so do tell me what is acceptable?
The problems also started prior to Ed, so singling him out is also naive.
And if he doesn't "authorize" spending? He is also beaten with the "over ruling" or "not supporting" his manager stick. Supports the "football men" and blamed for lack of structure.Its Woodward who authorised the spending of the money under LVG
How in the blue hell are folks not understanding this... Both demands cannot be met! It's actually impossible, like it cannot be done!
I mention Jose cause he has been here for almost half of his tenure as CEO, he is also responsible for expensive transfer fees and the signing of Sanchez and the renewal of player contracts.
I mention Jose cause there are distinct examples like Fellaini. Whom almost all our supporters believe is average and never signed at all, but Jose demanded he be kept, Jose stated that he needed him.
A repeated complaint often thrown at Ed is the renewal of Jones, Smalling & Young's contracts. Considering Jose picked Jones & Smalling over his own investments, isn't entirely plausible that he requested they both be kept? He also favored Young over Shaw, the latter routinely received public dressing downs from Jose.
So that's 4 average players Jose most likely favored and requested be kept and rewarded with new deals.
I've genuinely lost count here asking this.. but if Ed is supporting his manager and keeping these players, how on earth is it Ed's fault for following the instruction of a "football man" like Jose?
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